Indian Australians in Alice Springs NT

09/07/2023

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15/11/2022

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12/11/2022

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23/10/2022

10.04.2022

Parrtjima - A Festival in Light.

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22/10/2022

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Dipawali Celebration in Gurdawra Sahib Alicesprings

03/09/2022

Indian Indentured Labour and the Colonial Imagination, 1836–38

Legislative Council seemed open to the idea, and in 1837 the Committee on Immigration into New South Wales collected and published minutes of evidence relating to Indian migrant labour. As the debate progressed, concerns about the social, political, and racial implications of importing non-white workers into the colony emerged, while the upsurge in humanitarian opposition to indenture among abolitionists in Britain from 1838 onwards soon soured the appetite of many colonists for the scheme.

In the end, only a handful of Indian labourers were imported, and these were by independent settlers without government subsidy or support.

The 1835–37 Commons’ Select Committee on Aborigines was followed by the formation of the Aborigines Protection Society in 1837, while the British India Society split from the former organization in 1839 in order to devote its full attention to the plight of the ‘countless inhabitants of Hindustan.

The decision to focus on India raised important questions about the definition of aborigine’, however, while some Indian ‘tribal’ groups seemed to naturally fit this description, the majority of the Indian population were deemed too advanced to be truly aboriginal.

03/09/2022

On 9 October 1935, a team of cricketers embarking on the first tour by an Australia XI to the Indian subcontinent boarded the SS Mongolia, departing from Port Melbourne.

Australian team (Madras 1936).

24/08/2022

Five members of the Wartime Generation.

The five include an Australian (Don Lee), and two Indian National Army Veterans (Mr Kalyan Ram Das and Mrs Rasammah Bhupalan). A Chinese volunteer who served in Dalfore (Choi Siew Hong), and Mohd Anis bin Tairan.

Between them, they provide examples of western, Indian, Chinese and Malay experiences.

All five spoke at a form with the wartime Generation, held at the Singapore History Museum in September 2005 and were interviewed individually. Some of them have written and published accounts of their experiences.

23/08/2022

Afghan Camels and north India History in Alice Springs NT

A few people from north India had been in Australia since the first half of the 19th century. The Croppo Singh, a shepherd, opened a bank account in South Australia in 1848.

The camel trade brought the cameleers, the Afghans, most likely to influence conventions of aboriginal varieties of English. It started with Dost Mahomet, Beloch khan and Baton, who came in 1860 from Karachi to Melbourne to provide camel transport for the Burke and wills expedition. They are said to have been Pathans from Peshawar (Rajkowski 1987). Shortly afterwards, Samuel Stuckey and Thomas Elder imported 31 camel-handlers and 124 camels from Karachi (Mc Knight 1969) and established the camel carrying company. This began an influx of men coming to work in Australia, with port Augusta (South Australia) as the main entry point. In 1980 with gold rushes in Western Australia, some also landed at Fremantle and Port Hedland. Some Afghans worked as shepherds’ others as shopkeepers, drapers and tailors, but most were in the camel transport business. The cheap wages that Afghans asked for compared with European teamsters made them highly competitive.

The number of Afghans was never large, probably a maximum of 3000 at the height (Mc Knight 1969). The greatest destiny of Afghans was probably in western Australia during the gold rushes of 1890 (Schinasi 1980).

22/08/2022

INDIAN OCEAN … WA & Alice Springs

22/08/2022

The greatest stimulus to population growth in Alice Springs (see Table ), however, has been tourism. Since the early 1960s, great emphasis has been placed on the development of the town as a tourist centre. Each year, thousands of tourists from all over Australia and overseas come into Alice by air, road and rail. It is a base from which they make visits to the many spectacular scenic areas in the region such as Ayers Rock, the Olgas, S Standley Chasm and numerous gorges, hills and other features.

In 1977-78, 135, 372 tourists visited the Centre, almost all of whom also visited Alice Springs, and this figure was projected to rise to 157, 160 during 19 79-80.

22/08/2022

Todd (1974)